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California · Public charity

School Fund

Through the generous contributions of supporters and in collaboration with a network of education partners, The School Fund provides scholarships to high potential, economically disadvantaged students in developing countries. As a result of our work, more students are able to access and complete secondary school, leading a more educated…

$122k
Granted FY2022
4
Itemized grants FY2022
4
Organizations funded FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$40k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$8,220
Largest grant, FY2022
$15,610
States reached, FY2022
4
Total assets, FY2022
$257k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kenya Connect Inc$15,61015%
Beyond Fistula$8,22015%
Milaan Foundation$8,21012%
Shining Hope for Communities Inc$8,16010%

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to School Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About School Fund

How much does School Fund give?
School Fund reported 4 itemized grants totaling $40,200, out of $122,235 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing.
What does School Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are School Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2022: Kenya Connect Inc ($16k), Beyond Fistula ($8k), Milaan Foundation ($8k).
Which funders back the same organizations as School Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is School Fund based?
School Fund is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $81k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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